When Jinghan heard this, she shook her head, "You can't just point to the army in Hanzhou. The garrison there is the eldest son of the Mo family in Zhenbei Hou. They refused to be stationed in Xizhou at the beginning, and they may not be willing to come to rescue now. If you send someone to send a letter to Longzhou, I will ask Changshun to go to the capital, we have to make more preparations."

Zixuan frowned slightly, "The border is in urgent need at this moment, so the Mo family would not be so bad, right?"

"Whether you believe it or not, you can't just point to the reinforcements in Hanzhou. You can take people to defend the city first. I'll do the rest. By the way, you can let everyone splash water on the city wall. Such a night will definitely freeze." Jinghan remembered a story I had seen before, so she asked Zixuan to do the same.

It was really not the time to chat at this moment, so Zixuan turned around and took everyone and rushed to the north city gate. Jinghan also brought people back to the mansion. Changshun, Changxing and others also followed Jinghan back to the mansion, and Jinghan had something else to arrange for them to do.

There were patrolling people everywhere along the way, which was quite orderly. Everyone knew Jinghan. When they saw Jinghan, they all gave way. "Madam, it's cold, the road is slippery, so please go home quickly." The people of Xizhoucheng respected Zixuan and his wife like gods, so they were very respectful when they saw Jinghan.

Jinghan nodded, "Thank you all for your hard work."

"Defending the country is our responsibility, and it is not a hard work," said the leader.

Jinghan brought the people back to the mansion, then immediately wrote a letter and handed it to Changshun, and also gave him a golden token, "Changshun, take this token, you will leave the city immediately. This token was given to the emperor by the emperor and has never been used. If you take it, show it along the way. Governments and governments in various places will cooperate with each other."

The token has been in Jinghan's hands for a long time. When the emperor gave the token to Zixuan, Zixuan handed it over to Jinghan for safekeeping, it was used at this moment.

Changshun understood the importance of things, nodded, and went out with the two guards from the mansion. Chunlan followed Changshun, gave a few instructions, and then watched Changshun lead people straight to the east of the city.

Changshun was a member of the prefecture, and everyone guarding the city knew that, so he opened the city gate and lowered the suspension bridge to let Changshun leave the city. It happened that the people from Zixuan's sect also came here and went out with Changshun to report the message to Longzhou.

Zixuan brought people directly to the north city gate. Just now, Lord Li also brought people out of the city from here, and then all the people outside the city had to enter the city, so the north city gate was crucial. Zixuan ordered people to pour water on the city wall, not only the north city, but also all the city walls should be dealt with in this way.

So everyone was busy getting water on the city wall, and then poured it little by little on the outside of the city wall. On such a cold night, not only dripping water turned into ice, but the water gradually turned into ice, and the entire city wall became smooth as a mirror. Zixuan stood on the city and couldn't help but exclaim, "Now, let's see what they do when they attacked the city."

At this time, Zixuan looked at the north and couldn't help but worry, "I don't know what happened to Zhenyuan Pass? If Zhenyuan Pass falls, I'm afraid this Xizhou City will be in danger."

Zixuan's concerns were not unreasonable. At that time, in order to defend against the cavalry of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the city wall was built. At both ends of the city wall were the Taoer River and the Noni River. If it were summer, there would be nothing wrong. There was protection from two rivers. In addition, the moat outside Xizhou City was very wide, so I believe that the enemy would not be able to attack the city for a while. However, in this season, the moat had already frozen, and the mechanisms set up inside were completely useless. Moreover, the Taoer River and Noni River were also frozen. If the enemy bypassed the city wall and came from the river, wouldn't Xizhou be dangerous?

Zixuan turned around and called out the two people, "You two took a few people to Taonan County and Zhen'an County to tell the situation of Liu Magistrate Liu and Zhao Magistrate. In addition, let them defend the county town, if there is an enemy attack, they will immediately repay it."

The people next to him quickly got down from the city wall and went to report the news.

"I hope the reinforcements can come in time, otherwise, Xizhou will really not be able to be defended." Zixuan murmured.

However, at Zhenyuan Pass, seventy miles away, the battle situation was very fierce at this moment. The Northern Yuan army came from afar, but did not rest and attacked directly at the pass.

There are four giant mechanisms that can launch spears in Zhenyuan Pass. They can launch hundreds of spears at a time, and can also adjust the distance. This was done by Zixuan when he was building this pass. When he asked Mingyu to help him, a master of the mechanism invited from the capital, it took half a year to create. At the same time, eight were made, and the other four were in Xizhou City. This thing was of extraordinary power.

The Northern Yuan army came this time with 30,000 people. I saw a large number of people outside Zhenyuan Pass. These people advanced and retreated properly, and at first glance they were well-trained soldiers.

On the big night, there was naturally no moon. However, the people of the Northern Yuan Kingdom raised their torches and shone the entire city. Logically speaking, they were here to attack and should have been sneakily, but at this moment they were blatantly siegeing the city. I think they knew the defense here. 30,000 people were simply overwhelming advantage, which made them not care about these things at all.

The leader ordered a siege, and then he saw many soldiers carrying cloud ladders from the Northern Yuan army. These people carried cloud ladders and approached the city wall under the cover of archers.

Suddenly, a sound of breaking wind came in front of us, and countless spears flew towards us, and many soldiers died under the spears.

The generals behind waved the command flag in their hands again, and then another group of people continued to rush forward. And countless spears were still fired above the city wall.

"General, the thing on the other side is very powerful. It is not a solution for us to attack so hard." The person next to the leader stepped forward and persuaded.

The leader shook his head, "We have so many people, how many more times can he fire that thing? Attack, don't stop."

The people next to him had no choice but to continue attacking. In this way, they used people to pave the way. After falling down three or four groups of people, the Beiyuan army finally came under the city wall. They set up the ladder on the city wall and climbed up.

The city guarding mechanism is good at long-range defense, and once the enemy is close, it will not work. So the soldiers guarding the city start to throw down the wooden rocks. If a big wood is thrown down, it can knock down many people, and the big wood will continue to roll forward and will bring down many people. The people guarding the city above take the opportunity to pull up the ladder or overturn it. In short, they are trying to find a way to prevent the enemy from climbing up the city wall smoothly.

Wen Xuan and Zi Wen were also on the city wall and threw the rolling wood down with everyone. "We have to save some money, there are not many rolling wood here." Zi Wen shouted.

There are more plains in Xizhou and very little wood production, so there are not many rolling woods prepared on the city wall. If the enemy keeps attacking like this, it will be really not enough.

"Archers, try to shoot these Tartar soldiers, and you can no longer let the people behind you get closer." General Li shouted.

When they rode fast horses all the way from Xizhou, the Northern Yuan Kingdom had already started attacking. Fortunately, the army on the Northern Yuan Kingdom was not cavalry, so even the news came back here, and at least they caught up.

Looking at the dark people below, General Li was also a little desperate. How to fight this battle with 3,000 to 30,000? No matter how capable they are, they can't beat them? "Everyone, we have all persevered. We must persevere until Lord Lin transfers the people to the prefecture city safely. We can die, but the people cannot. Men, you must defend this place even if you fight to the death." He shouted loudly.

Everyone did not answer because they all looked at the situation below with concentration, constantly shooting arrows in their hands, striving to kill the enemy below every time.

The offensive below was still very fierce. Occasionally someone climbed up the city wall, but he was facing a bright big sword. In the fierce battle, time passed quickly, and the east was already a little white. At this time, there were fewer and fewer rolling trees on the city wall, and everyone was reluctant to continue throwing them down, but the enemies below were still coming up.

General Li threw down a big stone hard, and hit the heads of several Beiyuan soldiers who were climbing up. These people wailed and rolled down the ladder. But they rolled down, and someone continued to climb up behind them. Deputy General Li sighed, "Forget it, I am dead, so many people, how could we resist three thousand people."

Ziwen looked at the sky, estimated the time, and then said, "General, don't be discouraged. At this moment, the people in the villages and towns behind should be almost settled. At the age of time, we can't die, and we have to pull a few more people on the back before dying."

Everyone on the city wall shouted, "Yes, at worst, you can't die at all. Even if you die, you have to kill a few more Tartar soldiers and you can't lose money." At this moment, the crowd was excited, and everyone's eyes were red.

At this moment, there were shouts behind everyone. It turned out that they were from the state yamen, and they rushed over with the young and strong men who had been summoned along the way. It seemed that there were about five or six thousand people.

"General, our reinforcements are coming, and it seems that there are still many people." Wen Xuan turned around and shouted happily.

When the people guarding the city heard the reinforcements coming, they were energetic. They glared at each other and used all their strength. Two or three people carried the big wood and smashed it down.

The general of the Northern Yuan Kingdom in the distance looked at the Great Qi soldiers who were struggling to resist on the city wall and asked in confusion, "Didn't it be said that the Great Qi soldiers are very incompetent? We have been attacking for four hours in a row and have lost so many people, but we can't even get a small barrier?"
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